shadowiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shadowiness
Noun
  • The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Eliza Varadi, a pediatrician in South Carolina, told me that the murkiness around insurance coverage, coupled with lower demand, has prompted her practice to start ordering COVID vaccines just one box at a time—each a batch of 10 doses—to minimize the potential for loss.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification.
    Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Any unexplained death leaves room for competing narratives, but Scott’s death involved a particularly vexing set of ambiguities.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the political specificity of the family history unearthed here, the script presumes a level of profundity that’s just not there in the movie’s ponderous silences and woozy montages.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Lockwood says she’s often asked about her ability to toggle literary voice on a dime, ricocheting, like an elementary school PhD candidate, between potty humor and profundity.
    Eric Olson September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As a result, the impenetrability of EU bureaucracies will continue to limit the United States’ ability to restructure transatlantic economic relations.
    JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • This may be Riley’s attempt to portray the insularity and impenetrability of Ruth’s community, a faith so particular that even the reader is denied access to it.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Directed by Seryeong Jeong, this poignant drama reveals how empathy can bloom even in darkness.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In the rugged mountains of northeastern Brazil, , a region long influenced by mining, something new and unusual was hidden in the darkness, according to researchers.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Shadowiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadowiness. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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